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To: Kansas58
Priests ABSOLVES Catholics, in the Confessional, based on an “internal forum” or “Conscience” decision, that that forgiveness STANDS!

nope...when a priest forgives your sin in a confessional, it is based on your intention to not commit the same sin over again.....if you continue your sexual relationship with a second wife....you are still in a state of sin.

17 posted on 10/22/2013 5:42:15 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl
Nope, that is not what I meant.
The “Internal Forum” solution to the remarriage issue MIGHT involve telling a Priest in the Confessional, of your concerns.
If the Priest tells the Catholic that he or she must trust their conscience on the matter?
IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!
And do you think you have more authority than the Priest?
22 posted on 10/22/2013 7:29:51 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: terycarl
nope...when a priest forgives your sin in a confessional, it is based on your intention to not commit the same sin over again.....if you continue your sexual relationship with a second wife....you are still in a state of sin.

Uh LOL OK and the solution would be what then? Divorce which would be what? Sin is sin. Getting mad at your neighbor or spouse without just cause, lieing to someone, wanting your neighbors property and plotting to take it, and other sins. So which one condemns you? How many sins does it take? How great a sin does it have to be? Answer? One sin even the least of them without salvation through Jesus Christ which we are not worthy of but receive through Grace by faith.

Divorce brings parts of the previous marriage into the next one and issues that were there in the first as well. Even the innocent party in the divorce will have some issues. Can they be overcame? Yes. The act of an at fault divorcee remarrying is one sin. Can it be forgiven? You betcha. Ask forgiveness, learn, try in earnest to do better, and put it behind you, while focusing on a GOD centered new marriage.

My wife was divorced due to abuse, adultery, and abandonment, by her spouse. Her preacher knew the circumstances. When she met me {a young late 20's widower} she asked him about dating and her future and ours if it went that far, He told her her husband ended the marriage when he bedded someone else. In this case it was a very young teenage kid.

Ironically one of the persons behind the scenes right before our marriage was two Nuns who were counseling and protecting her as she was in the hospital at the time and only a few persons knew where. Long story but she became a quad when we were dating.

After a lot of prayers, a lot of counseling we married a second marriage for both of us. 28 year it will be next month. What GOD puts on your heart it is best to follow.

Look I'm a sinner. When I came of age I knew sin and it convicted me. Jesus Christ found me in my early teens. I didn't find Him He wasn't lost but I was. Did I stumble, fall, and sin afterward? You Betcha. I've had to pick myself up out of the dirt more times than I can recall or keep count of. There is remorse, prayer for forgiveness, and I try, try, again. Thankfully several temptations I have not fallen for and at my age now I see no real pleasures would come from it and I realize the pain it would cost others especially my wife whom I have remained faithful and her to me.

Any or all of our sins bring the fall. No goodness we can do, no penance, no acts other than a contrite heart in prayer to The Lord can help us. We are indeed to come to Him like a child to their father or mother who has done wrong. We can and we are forgiven. Being forgiven by GOD through Christ still doesn't excuse us nor stop the earthly cause and effect our wrongs did and as such we pay an earthly price here on earth or rather we suffer for our deeds in an earthly manner in some cases.

It is what we do with the choice of accepting GOD's gift of mercy and salvation through His Son that determines our eternal state. Denying a remarried couple who have asked GOD's forgiveness and are faithful to each other communion is wrong. We ALL fall. Now it Joe or Jane remarried and was sleeping around on their spouse? Yea. That's good cause till they repent. But if you deny it because of a second marriage then certainly it should be denied to ones who lie, covet, use GOD's name in vain, etc as well?

Communion in the churches I attended meant you examine your heart. It wasn't just a remembrance of Christ death and resurrection for our sins, it was also a time to cleanse and reflect on what was in our hearts, such as unjust anger, any sins you had not addressed with The Lord, etc, and to let it go or address it and resolve it before taking communion.

32 posted on 10/23/2013 8:25:56 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: terycarl

“when a priest forgives your sin”

He does what?


61 posted on 10/28/2013 7:16:36 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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